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Thomas Nast's editorial cartoons were worth fearing; the savage caricatures showed Tweed variously as a vulture, a bag of money and, when Nast had sufficiently aroused the civic conscience, a felon in prison stripes...
...liquor-license scandal. Rockefeller commuted the sentence for Morhouse, then ill of cancer, in 1970. By then the loan had been reduced to $86,313, which Rockefeller canceled. Senate Rules Committee Chairman Howard Cannon, a Democrat, said that he was bothered by such a gift to "a convicted felon...
Unusual Aspect. That problem hardly worries Promoter Don King, the first black ever to arrange a heavyweight title bout. For the moment, at least, King has become the most important matchmaker in boxing-quite a distinction for a felon who ten years ago was known as the numbers baron of Cleveland and four years ago was No. 6178 at the Marion (Ohio) Correctional Institution, where he was serving time for killing one of his underlings...
...long time to come. Ironically, Colson had planned to leave the White House soon after Nixon's reelection to become "the Republican Clark Clifford" -the lawyer with the "in" at the White House to whom clients would flock. Now, at 42, he is just another Watergate felon awaiting sentence, disbarment and learning the virtues of softball...
With the astonished landlord trailing in his wake, the young burglar who had previously robbed the place roamed the apartment complex, suggesting a change of lock here, a sturdier door there and providing other professional advice on security. Another Minneapolis felon recently brought his disabled car to the garage where he had once passed a $123 bad check that landed him in prison. One thief now gets along so well with the shopkeeper he once stole from that he was offered a job in the store...